Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show (2007–09). She appeared in the independent dramas The Burning Plain (2008) and Winter's Bone (2010), for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her first commercial success came with the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011).

Lawrence gained international fame for playing heroine Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film series (2012–15), which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. She starred in David O. Russell's romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award, becoming the second-youngest Best Actress Oscar winner. For her supporting role in Russell's comedy-drama American Hustle (2013), she received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a third Academy Award nomination.

Lawrence began her acting career in the TBS comedy series The Bill Engvall Show, playing Lauren Pearson, the oldest daughter. The series premiered in September 2007 and ran for three seasons. Actors on the show, including Lawrence, won a Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Performers in a TV Series, and Lawrence was nominated for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama).

In 2008, Lawrence made her film debut with a small role in Garden Party, followed by a starring role in Lori Petty's family drama The Poker House, as a young victim of abuse. She was awarded the Los Angeles Film Festival Award for Outstanding Performance for her role in the latter film. She next appeared in Guillermo Arriaga's directorial feature debut The Burning Plain (2008), opposite Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. Her performance earned her the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Emerging Actress at the Venice Film Festival. She also appeared in the music video for the song "The Mess I Made" by Parachute.

Lawrence's lead role in Debra Granik's Winter's Bone (2010), which won Best Picture at the Sundance Film Festival, is often cited as a breakout performance for her. She portrays a 17-year-old in the Ozark Mountains who cares for her mentally ill mother and younger siblings while searching for her missing father.

Her performance was highly acclaimed by film critics. David Denby, writing for The New Yorker, said the film "would be unimaginable with anyone less charismatic playing Ree." Peter Travers from Rolling Stone opined that "her performance is more than acting, it's a gathering storm. Lawrence's eyes are a roadmap to what's tearing Ree apart."Lawrence was awarded the National Board of review Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 2011, Lawrence co-starred in the independent film Like Crazy, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and she appeared in The Beaver, a dark comedy starring Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson.

The latter film was completed in 2009 but was stalled due to controversy concerning Gibson. She also starred alongside James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class (2011), a prequel to the previously released X-Men film series. She portrayed the shape-shifting villain Mystique, played by Rebecca Romijn in earlier X-Men films. First Class was a commercial success, earning $353.6 million at the international box office. Lawrence joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that year.

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in Superbad (2007). She has co-starred in The House Bunny (2008), Zombieland (2009), and Kieran and Michelle Mulroney's Paper Man (2009). In 2010, Stone made her leading debut in Easy A, for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Afterwards, Stone co-starred in notable films including Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Tate Taylor's The Help (2011) as Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, The Amazing Spider-Man film series (2012, 2014) as Gwen Stacy, and the animated film The Croods (2013), where she voiced Eep.

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In 2014, Stone reprised her role as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and co-starred in Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman. Her performance in Birdman earned her nominations for the SAG, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On November 11, 2014, she made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the role of Sally Bowles in Cabaret, in which she will lead until February 2015.In 2013, Stone signed on to co-star in Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's black comedy Birdman with Michael Keaton and Edward Norton, as Sam Thomson, the recovering-addict daughter of actor Riggan Thomson (Keaton), who becomes his assistant.

The film began principal photograpy in New York City in mid-April 2013 and was released on October 17, 2014 and received critical acclaim, especially Stone, Keaton and Norton's performances. Stone received numerous accolades for her role, including nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. In June 2013, she dropped out of Guillermo Del Toro's horror film Crimson Peak and was replaced by Mia Wasikowska. In May 2013, it was announced that Stone had signed on to co-star in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight with Colin Firth, set in the 1920s, shot on the French Riviera, as Sophie Baker, a psychic whom Stanley Crawford (Firth), a magician is asked to expose as a fraud. The film was released on July 25, 2014 by Sony Pictures Classics.

In May 2014, it was announced that Stone had signed on to collaborate with Woody Allen again and co-star in Allen's mystery comedy-drama with Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey and Jamie Blackley that filmed from July to August 2014 in Newport, Rhode Island. In August of the same year, it was announced by the Roundabout Theater Company that Stone had signed on to make her Broadway debut with Alan Cumming in the revival of the musical Cabaret as Sally Bowles, taking over the role from Michelle Williams.

Angela gained interest in fashion as a child. She said, "My father runs a fashion business in Shanghai. Even though he sells more mature clothes, I loved going to his store and trying on new outfits, and mixing and matching them. It was fun. I think that's how I developed a passion for fashion." She was first signed as a model by Style International Management when she was 14 years old.

She starred in the Japanese web drama Tweet Love Story in July 2010. The basis of the drama is audience participation via Twitter; selected viewer tweets with the hash tag #tweetlovestory would complete missing lines spoken by Yeung.

In May 2012, she signed a contract with Avex Group for activities in Japan. She has since been studying Japanese.

In 2014, she became a commercial film model of Hotel Shilla's Duty Free Shop which is an affiliated company of Samsung Group in Seoul, South Korea.